If Americans can know a Founding Father by the way he arranged his furniture, made his bed and set his table, then Thomas Jefferson has been reborn in the rooms of Monticello. To mark the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth Tuesday, the curators of the grand masterpiece of presidential homes have mounted an exhibition of his belongings in what must be the quintessence of such displays.

If Americans can know a Founding Father by the way he arranged his furniture, made his bed and set his table, then Thomas Jefferson has been reborn in the rooms of Monticello. To mark the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth Tuesday, the curators of the grand masterpiece of presidential homes have mounted an exhibition of his belongings in what must be the quintessence of such displays.